IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kimper
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 95KY-119-002
  • User Pedon ID: 95KY-119-002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 95KY-119-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 95KY-119-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47455
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 37.3519111
  • Std. Longitude: -83.0833361
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: At the head of Beech Branch; 1 mile northwest of Emmalena.
  • Map Unit: CkF—Cloverlick-Kimper-Highsplint complex, 30 to 65 percent slopes, very stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY119—Knott
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY626—Knott and Letcher Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37083-C1—Carrie, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: P.S. Aldridge
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kimper
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kimper
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Colluvium of Pennsylvanian lower and middle Breathitt sandstones, shales, and siltstones
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    LITU

    Acer rubrum

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    red maple

    tuliptree

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    55

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    354.8

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    45

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    Oi—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # KY3746
    A—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3747
    BA—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3748
    Bw1—30 to 64 centimeters (11.8 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3749
    Bw2—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3750
    Bw3—86 to 132 centimeters (33.9 to 52.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3751, KY3752
    Bw4—132 to 157 centimeters (52.0 to 61.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) very channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3753
    C1—157 to 188 centimeters (61.8 to 74.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; structureless massive; firm; 0.0 very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3754
    C2—188 to 229 centimeters (74.0 to 90.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) silty clay loam; structureless massive; firm; 0.0 very fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # KY3755